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A heartfelt message Thanks to Hobby Lobby for the wonderful, touching Christmas greeting in the Orlando Sentinel's Christmas Day edition. The paid advertisement featured a heartfelt, moving picture, and one that deeply touched me and my husband. It is most moving to see a business establishment forgo the commercialism of the holiday and focus on the real meaning of Christmas. Yes, Hobby Lobby sells many Christmas items and has clearance sales, but the company never loses the true meaning of the season. Thanks to Hobby Lobby for being a Christian-based entity that stands by its commitment and does not yield to the pressures of this world. Thanks for the Christmas blessing. It is an...

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A heartfelt message
Thanks to Hobby Lobby for the wonderful, touching Christmas greeting in the Orlando Sentinel's Christmas Day edition. The paid advertisement featured a heartfelt, moving picture, and one that deeply touched me and my husband.
It is...

The lecture hall had filled quickly. Several students arrived wearing keffiyehs, the traditional Palestinian headscarves, while in the front row, a young man sat draped in the Israeli flag. As the meeting opened, a student government officer reviewed...

JERUSALEM Isaac Herzog, the leader of Israel's Labor party and the main opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in next month's elections, said Tuesday that if elected he would work to revive peace talks with the Palestinians and curb settlement...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday for the "massive immigration" of European Jews to Israel following a deadly shooting near Copenhagen's main synagogue, renewing a blunt message that has upset some of Israel's friends in Europe....

Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed five people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city. Three of the victims held dual U.S.-Israeli...

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"I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those (Palestinian) kids, they'd say, 'I want these kids to succeed.'"
— President Barack Obama, in Jerusalem, March 21
— Very true. But how does the other side feel about Israeli...

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Speaking at a news conference in Ramallah with...

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Huguette Clark, a copper tycoon's daughter with a taste for exquisite French dolls, baronial homes and solitude, has died. She was 104.
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